The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1867, Page 4

sigeiaani 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNEYT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. —_—e NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1867. office on the Ist of April under the supervision of the sergoants-at-arms of both houses, will be required to take the test oath and the Congressional temperance pledge. The municipal election at Fredericksburg, Va, has been suspended, by order of General Schofield. The bark Transit, from New York for New Orleans, went ashore on Moselle shoals during the late storm, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the year, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price, $1. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy, Six large business houses were consumed by fire in Memphis on Saturday night, involving a loss of $150,000. The business part of the city of Albany, Ga, was also destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to $200,000. ‘The bill iutroduced by Mr. Lent in the State Senate on Saturday provides that no transfer of stocks, bonds and mortgages, or other securities now held, or hereafter received by the Superintendent of the Insurance Depart- ment shall be valid unless signed. by the State Treasurer or his deputy, A record of ali such transfers shall bo kept by the Treasurer, for which duty he shall receive $500 additional salary, Chief Justice Chase declines to assume the labor and responsibility of nominating the Registers provided for in the Bankrupt act until the Supreme Court has decided on the power of Congress to impose such extra duty upon him. We publish this morning the Supplementary Recon- ‘struction bill as amended and passed by the Senate, The funeral of the ate Hiram W. Wocruff, the cele- brated horseman, took place yesterday afternoon, from his late residence, near Union Course, Long Island. A large number of the leading sporting men were present. The remains were deposited in Cypress Hill Cemetery. Rev. Dr. Tyng preached his third sermon on Ritual- ism im the Church of the Ascension yesterday. Rev, ‘Dr. Cheever officiated last night at the Church of the Puritans, and Rev. Charles B, Smyth lectured at Argos Ball on Feniantsm, On Saturday night three ruffians entered the barroom of Mr. Bachmoyer’s hotel, near Newark, N. J., and committed a murderous assault on the proprietor and bis son Julius, a young man, Mr. Bachmeyer was shot and also severely cut on the head, while his son was shot in the arm and’ thigh. One of the assailants was wounded by young Bachmoeyer, who dis- charged » loaded gun at him. He was removed from the place, however, by his companions, and the three have thus faz escaped arrost. The ship Edmund Mauritus asrived at Victoria on Saturday with the Russian telegraph cable on board. The Nova Scotia Parliamont mot on Saturday. The Governor’s spoech was congratulatory in view of the success of the confederation scheme. In Mound City, Ill, on the Ohio river, serious suffer- Ing exists in consequence of the iaundation of the town by the high water. Arrangements have-been completed for a fight between Sam Collyer and Barney Aaron, some time in June next, for $3,000 or $5,000. The place of battle has not yet been made public. Annual subscription price:— number addressed to names of subscribers $150 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club often Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, f&ndany larger number at same price. An extra copy Will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the Werxty Henan the cheapest publication in the country. Postage Give cents per copy for three months. 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BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—ALt Hattow Eve—Larest raom New Yon. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Hotel.—Kataieen Mavounnzen, or St. Parnick’s Eve. President Johnson on Our Financial Situation. We have had various reports, as well as private Miles O’Reilly’s “talk with the Presi- dent,” about the President’s views on our financial situation. The expressions of Mr. Johnson on the subject appear not to have been well understood or-‘tave been misrepre- sented. The Judiciary Committee of Congress even thought proper to.suammon Miles O'Reilly to testify as to what tlie President said about financial matters. here need be no longer any doubt or speculation concerning the views Mr. Johnson holds. Our Washington correspondent haz hada “talk” also, and was able to furnish ws, in his communication pub-~ lished in yesterday’s HeRra.p, a etatement of these views “on authority that cannot be dis- puted.” They. are, as he says, “ the real opin- ions of the Chief Magistrate on the subject in question.” What, then, is the President’s financial pol- icy? It is that which we have been urging upon him, Congress and the country; for, he says, he “secs nothing to object to in the financial policy suggested by the Hsratp within the last few days.” He refers specially, we suppose, to articles on the subject which were published in last Tuesday’s and Friday’s paper, though we have beer urging not only “within the last few days” but through a long period the same views. The President, so far from favoring or even hinting at repudiation, is most anxious to avoid any possible agitation leading to it. No other inference could be fairly drawn from his con- versation with Miles O'Reilly. All his remarks were intended as precautionary—as a warn- GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Dawison as Hamuxr. THEATRE, ‘cue Tom's Ca: ndway, opposite St. Nicholas DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Proressor Harta wit Prerorm His MIRAGLES—L'Escamareur aNp HER Fairy Singing Binp, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 58 Broadway, opposite the M tan Hotel—[x tumie Rrutorian ENTaRrAiN- G, DANCING AND BuRumsquss.—Tue Bi kit Hast EATERS OF THE AMAZON. Y & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. oppo- Now York Hotel.—Iy vumia Sonas, Daxuss. Ecc gx- Burursques, &c.—Cinper-LeoN—MaDaGascar ourE—ParTi IN Pants, FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Nos. 2 and 4 West ‘Twenty-fourth street.—GRirrIN de Cunusty's Mixsteets.— Ermoriay Minstretay, Battans, Buacesquas, &0.—Tuz Ocwan Yacut Race—Tie BLack Cxoox. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery—Coute Vocauism, Necro Muxsteetsy, Baier Divertissement, &0.—Tuz Wortxne Ginis or New Yorn. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mochanies’ Hall, 472 Broadway—Ix 4 Vawary or Ligat axp LavGHasLe ENTERTAINMENTS, Corrs DE Balter, &c. — Bowoo.sor's FRowics. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO.—Srnxrts or Naw ‘ORK. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erntortax Mix- @rarisy, Batvaps xp BURcesques.—Tae Buick Croox. THE BUNYAN TABLEAUX, Cnion fall, corner of ‘Twenty-third street and Broadway, at 7% —Moviwa Min- m OF THR Piguia’s Procness—Sixry MAGxIPICRNT -Boawes, Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at ¥ o'clock. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6i8 Broadway.— fg oe is—Wonpers ix Narcrat Histogy, Ck AND Daity, Open from 8 A.M, ll WP. M. S WASHINGTON HALL, n.—Bupworte’s MivstRELs am rere Necro Acts, Ini ions, BURLEsquEs, &c. New York, Monday, March 1S, 1867, EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day, March 17. St. Patrick’s festival day passed over quietly in Ireland. The island was quite peaceful. There was no movement of the Fenians in Liverpool. Lord Derby’s Reform bill will be submitted to Parlia- ment to-day. The franchise is to be based on household suffrage after a limited residence, the payment of a small annual tax, money in savings banks or the funds, ‘and professional and collegiate education. The voting valuation in the counties to be fifteen pounds sterling. By tho steamship City of Baltimore at this port yes- terday, we have highly important and interesting details of the second Fenian war movement in Irejand, em- bracing a history of the insurrectionary events as they occurred, from the morning of the 6th to tho afternoon of the 7th of March. The most promi- nent and significant portions of the narrative are con- taine! In the letters of our special correspondents, dated fn the Fenian camp at Tallaght Bridge, in the county of Dublin, and im London, England. It will be seen that ‘the Fenian forces mustered according to a general order of the commanding general (which we publish), and on the very day named in our previous despatch from Athlone. Well armed at some points, but indifferently provided with munitions at others, they met the Queen's troops at Tallaght Bridge, Glencullon, Drogheda, Castle Martyr, Adare, Limerick City, Kilmallock, Limerick Janotion, and other places in Munster and Leinster, and fought well, considering the disparity in numbers, train- ing, age and command. The Fenians appear to have been held ander compiete control, but the real leaders @f tho rising are not known. The alarm of the authori- ties in Ireland was intense, and the Cabinet in England ‘was evidently taken by surprise. ‘The Fenians in England and Ireland announce that if they soize the Atlantic cable “they will send their own news to the Herat.” Phe reports from the different scenes of action in Ireland which appear in our columns to-day will command a very general attention. Our London correspondent states that the city was groatly excited by the advices from Ireland, and that the Fenian exccutive promises another military movement to take place in England, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Fenian delgation had an interview with Prosident Johnson at the White House on Saturday, when they ‘urged upon him to grant the insurgents in Ireland bel- Ugorent rights and to interfere in behalf of naturalized Citizens imprisoned in British dungeons. Tho President fald that he would give the former subject his serious consideration, as his sympathies had always been with thom, and, in regard to the latter, measures had already been taken for the release of several imprisoned citizens. ‘The anniversary of St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated ‘with more than the usnal enthusiasm and display to- day. More than thirty civic societies will parade, and they will be accompanied by numerous military organi- gations. Numerous grand dinners and social reunions will be given, In Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken and elsewhere similar processions will take piace, At the Church of the Immaculate Conception last evening, Archbishop McCloskey delivered a lecture on the life of Bt. Patrick before a large congregation, The mombers of the temperance society of the church were in attend. ‘ance, wearing the regalia of their associat ion. ‘Tho snow storm conWmued unabated yesterday up to six o'clock in the afternoon. Tho ratiroads lending into the city were generally unobstructed, and littie or no de. tention to the mails is reported. The steamboat trains for Boston had not arrived at that place last night A very heavy wind socompanied the storm at Portland, ‘and the steamship Nova Scotia, which salled in the after. Boon, afterwards came to anchot below, Mexican news, by way of San Is to the effect that General Horan, commanding tHe city of Mexico, had proposed terms to the ‘biicam commander on which he would serrendet fly, The liberals wore An quiet pollsession of 160. ‘The new Capitol ‘tuat are to be indaoted intg ing, and nothing more. with the paramount importance of a good rev- enue system, and concerned about providing adequate means for the gradual liquidation of the debt, as well as the payment of the interest on that debt. Knowing what has occurred in other countries when involved in reckless ex- penditures leading to repudiation, he is alarmed about the possibility of like causes producing the same results in our own coun- try.” John Quincy Adams which was deemed ex- travagant, and rejected by the people in consequence of an annual expenditure of thirteen millions, and he feels anxious when he recurs to the fact that the national debt “He is impressed He refers to the administration of is now over two thousand five hundred mil- lions, with an annual intereet of about a hundred and thirty-six millions to be provided for, in addition to the vast and growing yearly expenses of the government. Hence he is in favor of a policy which, in the lan- guage of the message of 1865, “ without being oppressive to the people, shall immediately begin to effect a reduction of the debt so as to discharge it fully within a fixed number of years.” He believed when he penned that message that the whole debt might be paid off in thirty years, and he was in favor of so regulating the expenses of the government and the revenue system as to accomplish that result in or about that space of time. In all this the President and the Heratp stand upon the same ground. We have de- nounced over and over again the reckless extravagance of Congress, and have warned that body that if it should continue in the same course, burdening the people to the last limit of forbearance, the worst results might follow. Nobody would think of repu- diation if our financial affairs and the debt should be managed right ; but we cannot tell what might happen if the weight of taxation should become insupportable and the public mind demoralized by the reckless and corrupt legislation of Congress. Unless the brakes be put down, and that speedily, the most dis- astrous consequences may be expected. We must stop extravagant appropriations and practise economy in every department of the government. We should also, as the Presi- dent says, and as we have repeatedly urged, provide for the gradual and entire liquidation of the debt within a given number of years, say within thirty years, Thus the burden would be diminished from year to year, and & cheerful confidence would be inspired in the prospect of seeing it entirely removed. Nothing short of this will satisfy the people and give hope and security in the future. To connection with the subject of our na- tlonal finances we have recommended the withdrawal of the national bank ey and substitution of legal tenders in its place, for the purpose of saving to the goveramept the profits on that amount of circulation, ‘The Great St, Herald Weather Prophet. In our issue of Friday morning last among the items of our city intelligence was this brief and positive prediction:— ‘Tae Wearaer.—It will snow or rain within the next forty-cight hours, Most of our readers, we dare say, at the time thought this a bold and hazardous prediction. Friday was a bright day, and we had just emerged from such an extraordinary succession of snows and rains that there were good reasons for the belief that, the skies having cleared up at last, we were to have the change of perhaps a week or twoof dry, cold March winds and clouds of dust. But our meteorologist was correct. Within his limit of forty-eight hours this great St. Patrick’s snow storm was ushered in upon us. It wasa regular Nor’easter, and came up under the general law of these storms, from the southward, riding over the under current frons the northeast, the storm pro- ducing this under current as a passing railway train creates a suction on both sides to fill up the vacuum behind it. A traveller from the South says that as he left Wilmington, N. C., on Friday morning last at six, it was sleeting and snowing there, and that he came up to New York with the storm, but that it had evidently been gaining on the locomotive all the way. From its Southern limit, therefore, somewhere in South Carolina, to its terminat- ing point in Canada, and from its apparent breadth: between New York and St Louis, this storm has covered an immense extent of country.. Reduced to water’ the volume it has: discharged would probably be equal to a foot in depth over the entire area'of the State of New York This may, indeed, be called a remarkable visitation after a winter unprecedented in this country im the number and volume of its ‘storms of snow and rain. Between Mexico and Canada and from ocean to ocean accounts of heavy rains or snows and disastrous floods and freshets have made up our Western reports of the last three or four months,.and we have had similar reports from the British islands and the European continent. Some great and gene- ral disturbing cause, covering tite northern cir- cuit of the gfobe, must have produced these re- sulis. What has itbeen ? Our weather prophet, a young and eathusiastic street astronomer, thinks that the cause may be found in the meteoric showers of last November ; that such was their efféct upon the earth’s atmos phere north of the equator as to result in the extraordinary sea- son of storms that has followed ;-and be thinks, too, that in the restoration of the atmospheric equilibriuma reaction will follow which will” probably bring us a remarkably dry summer and autumn,if not a general’ and disastrous drought. Now, we are inclined to believe that there is some truth in the theory thus suggested. If so what a maguificent field for invaluable scien- tific investigation is this! We-might call the attention of Protessor Loomis to the subject had he-not so signally tailed in his meteoric calcula- tions:of November last ; but we have a man of science who can be relied wpon—Professor Agassiz, and as we believe: there is some- thing in it we should like lits opinion upon this meteorological theory of our scientific street astronomer and clerk of the weather. We have shown that the eam of twenty mil- lions a year which is now lavished upon the national bank associations could be saved by simply taking away their currency and buying up or cancelling their three hun- dred millions of deposited bonds with a new issue of legal tenders. The volume of currency would not be increased, and we should put a eheck upon a vast and really dangerous mo- nopoly. As the President agrees with the Heran’s views we may conclude that he will be prepared to recommend this change. So also with regard to paying our accruing in- debtedness with legal tenders, and the conver- sion of these at the option of the holder and at their market value into three per cent bonds or consols of long date. We take it for granted, too, that the President favors a system of revenue which shall be de- rived mainly from a few articles of luxury and general use, and which can be managed at a third of the present cost. A great deal of the revenue is now consumed by our expensive and complicated system, The President regards the cotton crop as an important element affecting our national finances. It is'30, undoubtedly; for it not only enters largely iato our manufactures, commerce and business generally, but it is equal to gold in making our foreign exchanges, But the pros- pect is not so gloomy as he seems to believe. He thinks that the unsettled state of the coun- try will materially check the production of this most valuable arti¢le. For the time it has that effect, probably, to'some extent; but there was a larger crop produced last year than was ex- pected, and the people are earnestly at work this year. Prolonged political’ trouble would have a bad effect, doubtless ; ut we hope to: see the Sonthern States restored and that dif- ficulty removed before another year. We are gratified to: know that Mr. Johnson has such broad and comprehensive views in the main on our financial situation. He is now on the right track. We repeat the call we made upon him a few days ago; to make him- self master of the subject and to spread it Before Congress and the peoplein a message and with the same views which he has ex- pressed. It is going to be the great question of the future, and he is in a position to make the most of it. Humbug Barnum a Firancler. We reprint to-day a curious chapter in the hiistory of the Bridgeport candidate for Con- gress as a financier. Whether or not the case in which he appeared as defendant before the Sapreme Court in March, 1856, was “a made up case,” shrewdly contrived.to evade a still more searching examination of his financial opera- tions—after the manner of Alcibiades, who di- verted the attention of the Athenian public from his secret designs by docking his dog’s tail—“thereby hangs a tale” that may be twice told to the advantage of P: T. B.’s constituents, if not to his own. It is a piquant revelation of the “prestigitarian” dexterity with which this great financial illusionist manipulated the in- numerable “quarters” bestowed on him by a credulous public, together with his accumu- lated stocks, mortgages and securities of all sorts. Now you see them, and presto! now you don’t. The great showman expands to a full blown millionnaire on paper and dwindles to a pauper in court. He signs notes in blank to be filled up to any amount—almost all his property being nicely “assigned” to somebody else. His only property left is, O black re- publicans of Connecticut! a, mortgage on elaves in Tennessee—not to mention a claim for a drowned giraffe. He has lost all his fabu- lons receipts as a showman and has failed as a speculator in graves, fire annihilators, cop- per mines, clocks, cutlery, French hat bodies and what not besides. “I am,” he exclaims, “the poorest kind of a business man.” When questioned as to the amount of his liabilities, be answered, “I cannot tell, but I suppose from a half to a million of dollars.” But with all his losses he has not lost his “high moral standard.” With what an air he offers, as a set off to his million dollars of liabilities, to surrender to his debtors a gold watch that “cost me about $250,” and also “a diamond pin and ring, which cost together about $300. Ican produce them if compelled to do so!” With what thrilling tones he declares, “I wish you to understand that the standard of morality for a showman is a peg or two higher than that found in Wall street!” With what dignified and disinterested contempt he scorns his own notes! “They have been offered to me for twenty cents, and I have heard of their being offered for ten cents on the dollar; I would not buy them at any price.” Shaving notes, at least “the Jerome notes,” be holds in pious horror. He flees from the temptations of Wall street. .He retires to a farnished house in Eighth street, where he “keeps boa id feeding them on meat supplied gratuitously by his son-in-law, and on vegetables raised the previous year on his farm in Connecticut. Surely, if elected to Congress such a model ex- boarding house keeper might expect that Mr. Speaker Colfax will put him at once on the Committee of Ways and Means. But the tow- ering ambition of the woolly horse candidate may not be satisfied until he shall figure on the Finance Committee in the Senate or as Sec- retary of the Treasury; for he no doubt esteems himself competent to manage the finances of a nation because, like Mr. Pitt, the great British prime minister, he is incompetent to manage his own private finances. Humbug Barnum’s peculiar and extraordinary qualifica- tions as a financier were revealed when he ex- hibited himself in court as a moncyless mil- lonnaire. Mr. Betmont’s National Comurrres Exporsep at Tap Waits Hover.—President Johnson, it is said, endorses the late action of the National Democratic Executive Committee, at Mr. Bel- mont’s house, in deciding to postpone the call- ing of a National Democratic Convention toa more convenient season. In other words, Mr. Johnson thinks that the democracy, as matters now stand, are acting wisely in adopting Micawber’s policy of “waiting for something to turn up.” Tus Prorosap Treasury IsvEstIGATIONS.— The Senate on Saturday passed a joint resolu- tion for a searching investigation into the alleged mismanagement of various branches of the machinery of the Treasury Department, and the subject will come up to-day in the House, when the famous investigator of Buchanan’s Administration, Jobn Covode, it is expected, will raise a little excitement, Evon Ex-Secre- tary Chase, it fs said, has his fears of the safety of hig paper m: fystem if Covode bas re solved to sift the from the chaff, ‘The Pest Office and the Anm Street Widening. The committee of the Conmmon Council who are considering the propriety of revoking the resolution authorizing the: blockade of Broad- way by ike location of the Post Office in the City Hall Park seem to recognize the neces- sity of widening Ann street to afford relief to the lower part of the city, even if the work should be done on the south side of the strect. Well, we have no objections to this. They would find some difficulty in removing the new Heratp building, with its massive stone and iron firmly locked together ; but better do that than destroy the whole business of Broadway below the Park. We have some property up town, and should not object to erecting an- other fine building as an ornament to the upper part of the city. We are willing to do all we can to improve the city and relieve the present crowded, confused and impassable condition of Broadway, while Mayor Hoffman seems bent upon defeating public improvements and increasing the existing obstructions. If the Common Council should decide upon widen- ing Ann street on the south side they had better set about the work at once. They will then save us the trouble of removing into our new building. If they should delay until the Ist of May they will on that day have the satisfaction of seeing a num- ber of modest, intelligent gentlemen enter the new building about nine o’clock in the morning and proceed with their daily duties, and at ten o’clock in the evening they will hear the rolling of the presses in the spacious base- ment. But we shall be ready to move out again as soon'as it is determined to widen the street in the manner suggested. The Common Council will disappoint no person by under- taking this necessary public improvement, ex- cept the Bohemian newspapers and editors who have been predicting that the new Heratp building will be our tomb, and that in centu- ries to come we shall be dug up ont of the earth, safely stowed away in some of our stone and iron apartments, as bodies are occasionally found in the buried remains of cities of centu- ries ago. But so few of the predictions of these Bohemians @ver come to pass that this consideration should not be suffered to inter- fere with the contemplated work. A Railroad for Broadway. The several railroad jobs are being pressed with vigor at Albany, and there seems to be @ settled determination on the part of the Legislature to fasten as many of them as pow sible upon the city. Itis hinted that this dis- position to dispose of all the city charters in ® lump arises from the apprehension that the Constitutional Convention will seriously*inter- fere with tho power of the Legislature over these remunerative jobs, and that if any “hay” is to be made it must be done while the legis. Istive sun fs still shining. The underground road, the surface road and the three tier road seom all on the highway of success, so far as present appearances go. Of all these schemes the surface road is the most objectionable. For years it has been sought for by the power- fal lobby now engaged in securing the fran- chige, and has been a prolific source of corrup- tion in the State Legislature, Carried once by the most shameless appliances, it was vetoed by Seymour. It remains to be seen whether it will be sanctioned, with all its noterious bribery and corruption, by Fenton. If the Legislature is bound to nass soma Patrick’s Snow Storm—The Broadway bill they bad better take the under- ground and reject all the others, Ifthe pro- jectors of that scheme can get through the rock and the sand underneath the city and leave the houses standing let them doso by all means, They will not, at all events, ob- struct and destroy Broadway #8 a surface road would do. Out of all the evils give us the least—the underground bill—for that contem- plates a work that is not likely ever to be done. The Death Hiram Woodruff—The Sports of the Tarf in the United States. The death of Hiram Woodruff removes from the American turf one of the few men who have united with the calling of a horse trainer and @ jockey the reputation of an upright, henor- able man. It is conceded by all to whom the Nestor of the trotting course was known that in his sporting engagements he acted with an integrity and fairness that would not shame the business transactions of a substantial mer- chant. The customary tricks and deceptions of the sporting fraternity were never practised by him. When he made a match he intended to win it if he could, and those who lost money upon a horse entered or driven by him felt satisfied that they had not been made the vic- tims of a fraud. It is to be regretted that we bave not a greater number of men like Hiram Woodruff upon the turf in this country. But, unforta- nately, among the horsemen of the United States swindling is the rule and honesty the exception. The reason of this is that our “sports” are for the main part gamblers, poli- ticians and other “fast”? men, who go into horse racing as they do: into politics'or faro | dealing, for the purpose of making money. We have none of that national pride in improv- | ing the breed of horses which marks some European nations. -The owners of our’ “iast stock” are principally men who have made fortunes suddeniy, and not always by the most unexceptionable means, and the height of whose ambition: it is to possess a “two-forty” that can “beat the world.” This comprehen- sive phrase simply means who can out-trot New ¥ork; fora horse that can do that need not fear competitors from any other part of the globe. A fast horse, as soon as his qualities are discovered, is at ence: made a betting machine, and. is expected, by fair means or foul, to bring money into his owner’s pockets. When he is matched the struggle is not one for fame, but for gain. The men who gather around the winning post see nothing of the quivering flinks, the swelling veins, the distended nos trils, the flashing eyes of the noble beasis,"but fix: their gaze upon the dollars involved in the stakes and the bets. A horse is valued only for what he ean win, and few of our young men care to cultivate and improve the breed in blood, physique and speed purely for the love of the animal. . Of course there are honorable exceptions. to this rule. Hiram Woodreff took pride in the horse as an animal, and not-as 4 mere ma- chine for betting, and some few others of our | sporting fraternity follow his example, while many private citizens of wealth and leisure who never bet or make matches are owners. of animals that are a credit to the nation. Bonner’s horses, for instance, are admitted to be the fastest trotters in the world. To such men we are principally indebted for the im- provement that has been made in breeding and training during the past thirty or forty years, and which is shown in the increased speed of our trotters. In 1834 there was great excitement in sporting circles because Ned Forrest made @ mile on the Centreville track in 2:31, and inthe match between that horse and Daniel D. Tompkins, for $10,000, in 1838, on the Hunting Park course, the time ranged from 2:40 to 252. Now, with little Flora Temple’s 2:194 to harness, and Dexter’s 2:18 to saddle, such time would be laughed at on the road. In England and France horse racing is a na- tional sport. There the rules of the turf are stringent and are strictly enforced. The noblemen and men of large wealth who are its patrons covet honor rather than money, and spend fortunes in improving the breed of horses and keeping up the high character of the sport. Occasionally, of course, some blackleg trans- action comes to light there, as well as here ; but as a general rule their races are conducted with the utmost nicety of honor, and the nation takes a pride in them. Trotting finds small favor with Englishmen and Frenchmen, who would look with indifference upon the greatest achievements of Flora Temple and Dexter, as compared with the running in an ordinary race. It would be well if we could infuse into our own sporting circles some of the spirit that animates the turfmen of Europe, so as to se- cure at once an improvement in the breed of our horses as well as in that of their owners; but it is idle to expect that we can ever make a “national sport” of horse racing, yachting or anything else here. The condition of the country and the character of our people render it impracticable. We might with as good prospect of success attempt to revise the jousta and tournaments of the middle ages, as some of the Southern chivalry did a few years ago, before they drew upon themselves the hard knocks of actual war. We are a practical, dol- lar-loving people, and the only national sport we shall ever thoroughly enjoy is that of making money. Now and then, when our Yankee yachtmen accomplish some bold achievement, or when an enterprising Yankee sportsman wrests the laurels from the brows of the for- eigners upon their own boasted turf, » thrill of national pride is felt from Maine to Califoraia, and we fancy ourselves « nation of sailors and horsemen. But as a general rule the people of the United States believe in dollars rather than in glory, and will occupy their time with no sport that does not yield » return of hard cash. Proaress or Tas SuPPLeMentary Raconsravo- tion Bri.—The Senate have passed this bill with material amendment providing that the registered voters in an election upon the sub- ject, in each of the ten excluded States con. cerned, shall decide upon the proposition for the election of a'State convention to reorganize the State upon the basis of the terms laid down by Congress. The bill, as thus adopted, goes to the House, where it will probably be adopted. Then a veto is expected, and then the passage of the bill by a two-thirds vote in each house, and then active proceedings of Southern reorganization under the law. With this expected one more veto set aside itis be- will be closed and that a recess will be till October ‘to give the Preaident e fair trial jn the execution of the lawa, EUROPE. BY THE CABLE TO MARCH 17. The Fenians Quiet on St. Patrick’s Day. Zari Derby’s Reform Bill and Franchise Bases. &e. “TRELAND. Ne Fenian Rising Saint Patrick’s Day. Duss, March 17, 1867, The fears that the Fenians would attempt another general rising to-day have not been realised. Despatches from all parts of the island report that the country is jaiet, Ne Frequent arrests are made by the police im the disaf fected districts, &e. + & ENGLAND. No Fenian Movement in Liverpool. Lrverpoot, March 17, 1867. No disturbance was created here by the Fenians to- day, ag was feared, and the city is entirely tranquil. THE REFORM QUESTION. Lord Derby’s Bill from the Reconstructed Cabinet. Loxnox, March 17, 1867. ‘The Reform Bill which is to be brought into Parlia- ment by the government to-morrow, will give the right of suffrage to rate paying householders after two:years” residence; to men paying one pofind yearly taxes, or having thirty pounds in asavings bank, or,fifty pounds in the funds; and to all members-of the learned profes sions and graduates of the universities, The bill also provides for a fifteen pound franchise in the counties, MARINE INTELLIGENCE. . Sournampron, March 17, 1867. The steamship Mississippi, from New York, arrived here this morning, and after landing her passengers and malis proceeded on her voyage to Bremen. FINE ARTS. The artists are busily preparing for the approaching exhibition of the American Academy of Deeign It i anticipated that in many respects this will excel all pre- vious exhibitions at the’ Academy. We are happy to learn that the trustees have intrusted the general man- agement of the Exhibition to Mr. Alfred Ordway, am artist and connoisseur whose experience, taste and tact have contributed so much to the success of the exhibi- tions at the Boston Atheneum. Mr. Ordway has lately removed to this city, and both exhibitors and the publie will reap advantage from his connection with the Academy. , The “Rosa Bonheur” collection, which has attracted such throngs of visitors to Mr. Derby’s new and elegant art rooms, is to be removed this week to the fit-gallery of Messrs. Leeds & Miner, where it will be offered for ! sale. A free exhibition of modern oil paintings by leading artists of the French, Belgian and American schools ia open at the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery. Rothermel’s “Republican Court in the Days of Lin- coin” is still on exhibition at the Art Imstitute (Derby gallery) on Broadway. The school of design at the Cooper Institute Is already yielding fruit, It has sent forth pupils whose works and inflwence are finding their way to remote parts ef our vast country. One of ita best pupils, Miss Sarah Townsend, of New York, has donated to the new church: of St. Mary’s,in St. Paul, Minn.,afine large picture which she has just completed. It is a copy of Murillo’s celebrated painting, “Our lady of the Rosary” In the Florentine gallery, The costume of the Virgin Mothes exhibits the two symbolical colors—red, the color of love and religious aspiration, and blue, the color of constaney and heavenly purity. If her countenance, like that of nearly every Madonna by Murillo, seems leas divine thag human, it only appeals the more directly to our human sympathies, The head of the Holy Child is particularty beautiful, and Murillo’s little angels are here, as always, angelic, Miss Townsend has taken advantage of twa trips to Minnesota to study nature in its luxeriant beauty on the Western prairies, and has brought home on her canvass many choice and elaborate specimens of prairie flowers. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tas Hartem Rartroap anv Tam East Sipe Associa. ‘Tios.—After several protracted hearings of the Hariem Railroad Company on one side and the property owners along Fourth avenue at Yorkville on the other, the Sea- peti ot Smenapg awed A speedy passage of bill ie looked for. Goma to Tux Par Exrosrrion.—It is stated that -Governor Fenton will leave for France in tho steamer Ville de Paris, on Saturday next. this country from Cadiz, but that as the United States Consul there refused to certify any of the invoices they cannot be consigned. ‘his is considered to be a great bardshtp on the trade, and in the event of the negotia. tions with the United States Consul now in progress not succeeding {t 1s proposed to memorialize the Seere- tary of the Treasury on the subject, Tax Broapway Brings. —The foundations for the stair- ways of this structure, between four and five feet deep, to be filled in with masonry, i aac eacisetces ok ike LJ wo ten days from this date. Coast Wrackixa Orrnariows.—Captain Merritt, com. mander of the relief, reports that the vessel in jeopardy was not a British but a Danish brig, antl that the Seot- Jand still stops the channel way. Drowmiva Casvanty.—The three boys, of whose death by drowning a notice appeared in the Henatp yesters day, were the sons of Mr. John Sigler, of No. 311 West Twenty-fifth street. Auuost 4 Catastropi.—A locomotive attached to the New Haven freight express while on her way to this city po heap gegen d afternoon and while near 126th stroet, ran off the track and upset, Fortunately E j | it i i # i Bei gt